Recent Updates
Baltimore Heritage Needs a Few Good Quilters!
January 15, 2026If you are an experienced sewist who would like to use your skills and talents to join other volunteers in creating a group project that celebrates Baltimore, this post is for you. Baltimore Heritage would like to submit a quilt to the 2026 Homage to Baltimore Quilting Competition, https://www.homagetobaltimorequiltingcompetition.com, and… Read more
January 28: Heritage Happy Hour at the Brewer’s Art
January 7, 2026Join Baltimore Heritage for our very first Heritage Happy Hour! Come enjoy a casual get-together at The Brewer’s Art and connect with fellow history lovers, preservation enthusiasts, friends of Baltimore’s past, and Baltimore Heritage’s own Executive Director, Johns Hopkins. Drop in, share a drink, and meet others who care about… Read more
What Are We Planning for 2026? And why we need your support to make it happen.
November 13, 2025With thanks to those who have already donated, we wanted to share what we’re planning for next year and ask again for help in making it happen by joining or renewing your membership! We are a small organization so a gift of any size – from $5 to $500 – will… Read more
Announcing our New WYPR Weekly Segment!
November 4, 2025We are delighted to be partnering with WYPR 88.1 FM on a weekly radio segment called “Five Minutes of Baltimore History” hosted by our executive director, Johns Hopkins! Not all of Baltimore’s history is easy or straightforward, but all of it is important. Frederick Douglass escaped his enslavement from here;… Read more
Furloughed? Consider a Free Tour on Us
October 29, 2025Baltimore Heritage is thinking of the furloughed workers in the Baltimore and DC region and is offering a free tour ticket to anyone in this position. Please email Molly at ricks@baltimoreheritage.org to register. Hang in there! Read more
New Centennial Home: The O’Donnell, Wooden & Crew Family in Patterson Park
October 22, 2025On October 16, 2025, Baltimore Heritage awarded a Centennial Homes certificate to Trudee O’Donnell. Trudee’s rowhouse on N. Kenwood Ave has been in her family for over 100 years. Her great-grandmother Gertrude Yowell and husband bought the home in 1922. And as you see from the picture, the potential next… Read more